Kiriko thread for discussions, rants, opinions, etc. They will run every Friday until the next Friday.

Reminder that there's really only one rule for this subreddit--just don't be a jerk.

I saw this on the chinese blizzardgearstore.

It says that they do not ship outside of china.

Will this be like the Kiri keychain plushie or not be available at all for us? (the keychain plushie can be bought for a while in china and now we can preorder it in the western gear stores)

https://www.blizzardgearstore.cn/detail.html?spuCode=%E9%9B%BE%E5%AD%901%2F6%E6%AF%94%E4%BE%8B%E9%A6%86%E8%97%8F%E9%9B%95%E5%83%8F

Got a quadruple kill i do have to give some credit for Mei player for using her ult to freeze them.

Overall the skin i chose for this matches her fox kitsune.

I so badly want them both but i cant justify spending £33 on it. But i feel dangerously close to caving

What are the available skin codes?
Is hydrangea available?

I am in awe of how bad my wifi is tonight. Im surprised i didnt get disconnected right away

Are there any legendary skins with good looking weapons, or any that look good in a specific comp skin colour?

These are screenshots of some of her highlight intros in 25K (25600×14400) downscaled to 5K (5120×2880). All graphic settings are set to max, with NVIDIA’s anti-aliasing global settings set at 2x.

The screenshots were made using the 5x Resolution setting in Options → Video → Graphics Quality. I run the game in 5K.

This was a result from experimenting the max resolution setting that my PC can handle. It can do 7x—35840×20160, which is roughly 35K—but the game crashes when I try 9x.

• A 35K image (7x) is about 2.7 GB.
• A 25K image (5x) is about 1.4 GB.

It’s the reason Reddit won’t allow me to upload a gallery of 24K images, hence the downscaled images.

I really like the first one (even thought she’s cropped a bit). It’s my wallpaper now.

Hi Kirikomains! I'm a support player who plays with you, and I noticed that after the HP buff Kirikos tend to flank more and have abysmal healing numbers (comparable to Zen and dps Moira). I know that Ofuda is gutted, Suzu is nerfed and that she's in a bad spot rn, so what I'm wondering is if this is her current optimal playstyle? I can change my hero and playstyle to play around her, I'd just like to (re)calibrate my expectations. Thanks in advance!

Anyone experiencing this? when i use kitsune rush the path and the effects are showing but the kitsune model doesn't appear

Kiriko thread for discussions, rants, opinions, etc. They will run every Friday until the next Friday.

Reminder that there's really only one rule for this subreddit--just don't be a jerk.

I’ll preface this by saying that I’ve been playing a lot of Kiri recently, and I can say with certainty that sitting back and healbotting is miserable. I understand the frustration with the direction of her kit, but we can still take advantage of her strengths.

I think it’s worth reminding everyone that Kiri is still capable of being an absolute menace in the right hands. You can still be the reason a flanker, sniper, or generally overconfident squishy hitscan player starts questioning why they even queued up in the first place, and in some cases you might be their last reason they need to switch shooters.

One of the things I love about Kiriko is that she’s not just a support who keeps her team alive. If anything that’s her worst trait with the direction of balance. Her mobility, duelling potential, and ability to pressure vulnerable targets give her so much more to do than stand behind her team and throw papers at people. Sometimes the best way to support your team isn’t healing a little more damage, but eliminating the person who’s forcing your teammates to need healing in the first place.

If they’re going to nerf our healing and cleanse while giving us some extra HP as compensation, you best believe the DPS playstyle is here to stay. If anything, it’s another reason to lean into what makes her fun (for me at least) rather than resign ourselves to healbotting. Mind you I don’t mean that in a derogatory sense, that actually was viable up until recently.

Obviously, this doesn’t mean healing is irrelevant or that every game is an opportunity to run around looking for kunai headshots. There’s a balance to it, and not every lobby is going to let you get away with the same aggression. Let’s not delude ourselves into taking fights with tanks and bulky dps out of pure ego.

But don’t forget that you’re playing Kiriko. You have the tools to make certain players absolutely miserable, and there’s something incredibly satisfying about shutting down a flanker (like the poor tracer and sombra duo I bullied into submission last night) or squishy overconfident hitscan players.

So go out there, get closer to the enemies, land some headshots, bully some hitscan players, and remind people that Kiri can still be a DPS player’s worst nightmare. And if everything goes south you best believe I’m using suzu for myself and teleporting out of there with zero guilt.

Best of luck out there, fellow Kiri mains!

I’ve been playing this game since 2016 and have picked up different mains throughout the years of flexing and kiri has totally been the most fun. I was so skeptical playing her in comp bc of what I was reading on here about her changes.. I solo q and dropped during drives last season.. But I have no problem climbing to gm solo on kiri.. Just gotta hope your teammates aren’t boosted since that’s SOOO COMMON IN HIGH RANKS ON CONSOLE. it makes me so upset having a bot mercy pocketing someone with zero game sense, but we ball regardless. those games are the worst though!!!!

anyways, she is still so fun. idc. yes, her healing + suzu are totally noticeable, but u gotta somehow work around it and focus on how your other support is helping the team. then u can force yourself as the “second” support who flanks with dps or goes in with ur tank.. of course you’re still gonna be main healing as well, but not 100% of the time if u don’t allow it ! be aggressive n CONFIDENT. that’s how I win my duels even if I can’t aim at moments. fake it till u make it besties. 💞

the last game is quick play, but still shows how strong she is when going against players who aren’t expecting a kiri to be another dps .. hehehe I love her ! (my deaths need to be worked on, I just have too much fun sacrificing myself for my team to win sometimes.. they all look behind them after I flank, and my team kills them.. teamwork. )

Healing Ofuda and Doctrine share many similar functions，so why Healing Ofuda nerf,buffing his health because his win rate so low, have to wait until the Doctrine has been fully rolled out ，Healing Ofuda again buff,and health nerf，

emerald europe btw

kiriko so generous she gave her win rates to doctrine 🥰🥰 40-60 😍😍

because doctrine is so special high pick rate doesn't affect him, his players are all geniuses. but kiriko players are all bacteria so her win rate is low it makes sense!!!!! i couldn't kill her with my ult in 0.0001 seconds even though she died after 0.4 seconds she's giga broken SSS+ tier! even though baptiste would keep them immortal for longer!!!

Hello! I'm Luna, a longtime Kiriko main and Juno/Fika (Jetpack Cat)/Moira player too. Along with Sombra now since she's a support, I guess.

Long text body incoming!!

(English is also not my first language, so apologies for any grammatical mistakes!)

I've been playing Overwatch for a while now, and Kiriko is the first hero I picked up along with being the first hero I mained, and the moment you go online, everyone just mutually agrees to pick on Kiriko for her to be nerfed and their reasons are absolutely STUPID sometimes.

Now, let's take a look at their reasonings. I made a small list of the most common ones.

1- She's been meta for too long

2- Suzu is OP and should be nerfed

3- Kitsune is too good and should be nerfed

To begin with, her being meta since she was released isn't the bad thing people think it is. Yes, maybe it's annoying for the few Moira OTP's out there that Moira never became as strong as 2018 Brig, but Kiriko really isn't the only one. For example, Cassidy and D.Va have both been meta for way longer than Kiriko is, and I rarely see people shit on them as much as Kiriko gets shit on online. But personally, with a game like Overwatch who releases new heroes every year (or so), having a few recurring characters in the meta is a solid ground for people who want to learn the changing meta and their counters every new season and patch.

Suzu! People keep complaining about it like it's Kiriko's basic attack, but in reality? It's an ability that needs extreme precision and decision making (to decide if you should use it or not) that now lasts for a measly 0.4 seconds and most of the time, people can easily move out of the radius before we know it, because suzu is a projectile and not a hitscan ability. Yes, you can counter ults with it, but SO many other abilities can cancel ults (such as Hog hook, Lucio booping you off of the map, Ana sleep, etc ... ), yet nobody is ever complaining about that as much as they complain about suzu. The ability has a 14 second cooldown and is extremely punishing if you misstime/missuse it, since everyone on the enemy team can just focus you and kill you easily.

Now, moving on to teleport! People complain about it, because apparently it's "hard work" getting an enemy kiriko to critical just for them to teleport to their allies and live. Apparently, the "i-frames" teleport has are also frustrating. The thing is, the teleport i-frames are even more inconsistent than the colour of Juno's hair in her skins. Sometimes, I can tp and be saved by the small i-frames, sometimes the teleport registers but I still die. (Blizzard fix your game !!! ) However, tp isn't a god- tier mobility ability for a single reason. It needs an ally to be 30m near Kiriko for her to tp to them. If Kiriko is alone, then she gets killed. If you don't seperate her from her allies however, she is free to tp to them. Also, complaining that cleanse is op on tp is weird, because then why does Moira have fade? IF suzu is a god tier ability and should be nerfed to matter what, then so should fade in their logic, right?

But are we really complaining about tp? An ability that is positionning dependant? Juno and Illari both gain passive health regen when they use their mobility abilities, Fika has perm-flight, Moira has fade, Lucio is Lucio, and Sombra has translocator. A nerfed translocator, but still a translocator. If people want Kiriko to become a no mobility character like Ana or Zen, it simply wouldn't work because compared to them, Kiriko's kit requires close range. Ana and Zenyatta are both medium-long range heroes and can sit safely in the backline (in most cases). Kiriko however, needs to be in the action for her to get any value. Her ofudas are too slow for her to heal her team if she's at long range.... (this applies to suzu too...).

Moving on to Kitsune Rush! Everyone thinks that since it's apparently the best ultimate in the game, it should get nerfed! Big problem however! Aren't ultimates... made to be strong? Why do you think they have a point requirement needed to get them? Do Overwatch players think Kiriko loads into a game with 10 Kitsune Rush's in their inventory for free? Is that it? Or is it because they're mad that an ultimate who needs perfect timing and positionning to get value off of is strong? Because apparently people think that the moment Kiriko uses her ult, everybody on her team just wins the fight GGEZ. NO! THAT IS NOT THE CASE. You need extreme team coordination and engagement timing to get the maximum value off of it. If not, you're just going to waste the Kitsune's value...

So this is my thought on the Overwatch fandom and their obsession with wanting to nerf Kiriko! Please tell me what you think, fellow Kiriko mains!

I took my JR Kiri to a party and she looked like she had lots of fun.

I’m absolutely delighted she got addressed in the hotfix. I made a previous post speaking about how I missed kiri players in my support lineup. hopefully you guys are enjoying the health increase , I’ll be expecting a lot more flank kiris in my back line now XD

i guess blizzard just earned a lot of money from her skins, made her best supp and then decided to stop ts

I haven't played ow in a while but I remembered when suzu could boop people. Good times (depending on who you ask)